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Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch City, New Zealand
Cardboard Cathedral

2013 · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

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Church in Christchurch Central City, New Zealand

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Cardboard Cathedral

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Church in Christchurch Central City, New Zealand

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Cardboard CathedralCardboard Cathedral

2013 · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

Architecture-Studio

1973 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Typeworkbureau
Year / years20131973
PlaceChristchurch, Canterbury, New ZealandParis, Ile-de-France, France
Place contextChristchurch, Canterbury, New ZealandRepresentative site: Athens, Attica, Greece
ClimateClimate unavailable22°C · 13.4h daylight · 13 km/h wind · via Onassis Stegi
FocusCathedral1 works in corpus
Architects
  • Shigeru Ban

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Bureaus

  • Shigeru Ban Architects

Notable works

  • Onassis Stegi
Typologies
  • cathedral
  • religious building
  • temporary architecture
  • cultural center
  • performing arts venue
  • exhibition space
Materials
  • cardboard
  • timber
  • polycarbonate
  • glass
  • metal
  • stone
Carbon signals

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  • Cardboard
  • Polycarbonate

Glass, Metal, and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Glass
  • Metal
  • Stone
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  • Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible1 of 1 recorded works are publicly accessible
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